Wall street reaction to women in IPOs: An examination of gender diversity in top management teams

Group and Organization Management

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 524-547

  Welbourne, Theresa M ^a   Cycyota, Cynthia S ^b   Ferrante, Claudia J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNITED STATES AIR FORCE ACADEMY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diversity; IPOs; Market signaling; TMT

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548447059     PISSN: 10596011     EISSN: 15523993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1059601106291071     Document Type: Article

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